What is Network Marketing?
Many people want to work from home, but they don't want to create their own company. Direct Sales (or Network Marketing) is the perfect solution for those people. Companies provide infrastructure, support, training, tools and, in may cases, websites. Which thereby eliminates many of the stumbling blocks involved with starting your own business.
Network Marketing is a $30 billion dollar industry and many of the people sharing in that wealth are people. Just about any product or service can be purchased through direct selling somewhere in the world. Many people think of cosmetics, wellness products and home decor as products that are often sold through direct sales, but add to that countless other product categories including kitchen products, health benefits, legal services, jewelry, clothing, organic gardening supplies, spa products, scrapbooking supplies, rubber stamps and much, much more.
Most Network Marketing companies make it easy for you to market their products. Every seller gets a Web page on the company's Web site from which to take and process orders, so when your customers want to reorder, they can do it online. Each time you make a sale, you earn a commission. And if you recruit people to become sellers, you'll make a small commission on their sales too.
Is it right for me?
I have interviewed many people that generate part-time income in Network Marketing and they love the flexibility. As long as you are coachable and willing to learn, you can succeed and make part time or full-time income.
I have also interviewed many people that are making 6 figure incomes in direct selling/network marketing. Many of these people don't posses college degrees nor business degrees. They simply found a company that they believed in, a compensation plan that made sense, a product or service line that had value, and an opportunity that if worked consistently, would build a business for them and their families.
The best part of the business.
Anyone can start. It doesnt matter who you are or where you come from. Everyone is given an opportunity to succeed (if they elect to do so).
We also love that it's affordable to join a Network Marketing company. There are companies that offer starter kits for under $100.
Why should you pay a fee?
Network Marketing is not a job. You are an independent contractor and the company cuts you a straight check. In return, you will be receiving websites, training and support.
Our suggestion: Pick a company where you can get passionate about their services and their products and then contact them. Ask lots of questions. Every legitimate company will gladly provide someone to answer your questions, so don't be shy. Contact me for assistance
Powerful Reasons Why YouShould Consider Network Marketing
1. You are not alone but you are independent. In the vast majority of businesses the owner is all alone. No one knows what issues he or she has to deal with. So there is no one to talk to about the business except yourself or perhaps a spouse. In a good network marketing company, there is a much better support system built into the business.
2. You have a better road map. In most businesses, there is no road map. In traditional business a new direction, or a new product looks good and, if it's successful, that's great, but if it's not, it can cost you big time. In a good network marketing opportunity, the direction is clearer with lots of help both from the company and your sponsor.
3. You learn about business. In traditional business, you learn as you go-- sometimes called the "school of hard knocks" which can put you out of business fast. In a good network marketing company business education is taught as you go. This is the one key reason why Robert Kiyosaki, author of the "Rich Dad Poor Dad" series of books supports network marketing. One reason there is a high failure rate in this business is that new people fail to make the mental adjustment from job mentality to business mentality. When things don't work out immediately, they often blame the business, not themselves. The "Rich Dad/Poor Dad" books discuss this in detail.
4. You learn about products/services and find out how you can help people with your products or services.
5. Your time is flexible. Work can be done when it suits you, not your boss. If you're network marketing opportunity is internet basedm communication via e mail can be done at any time of day or night. Websites can be modified whenever you have time in a day. Internet Ads can be posted at anytime. You can choose to work 16 hour days or 16 minute days--the results will definitely vary but it's your decision.
6. You can do this part time. This is far more important than it seems. It's also got a negative tinge to it for those who don't get it. Popular thinking might tell you that a "part time" network marketing business is not a real business. The key point is that you can develop another source of income without disturbing your current source of income. 100% of us require some form of income to live our current lifestyle so we can't just chuck it for something new. Some people take this leap of faith when they leave one job to hopefully do better at a new job. Entrepreneurial types start a new conventional business committing all their time and finances to make a new venture work. In the latter two cases, it's all or nothing--a big gamble. You win or you lose. In part time network marketing business, you can make mistakes, you can screw up but there's always a new day to start over. It's a very forgiving business.
7. You can work from home. No rush hours to and from work--no traffic at all. I do walk along the beautiful lakes in Lakeway, TX early in the morning. That's my kind of "rush".
8. You can be creative. I believe this is an often overlooked benefit of owning your own business. Much of what I feel is summed up in the song "My Way" by Frank Sinatra. If you are creative, and you can learn to be given the opportunity, you can think of ingenious ways of doing your business. It could be in product selection, marketing, website design, brochures etc. There is literally no limits as to how you can express your individuality in a small business---maybe that why Mastercard, in its new ad, calls owning your own small business "priceless".
9. You associate with positive people. There's one really great thing about being in network marketing or meeting other people in small business and that is the high positive energy level that surrounds them. There are very few pessimists and "I'm ok" people in their own successful business. You can't afford to be down so you wouldn't be caught dead "down". You have to be feeling "great" even when you're anxious as hell. The mind believes what you say so always keep it up tempo even when you are joking. Successful "possibility" people in business know this and that's why they are fun to be around. It's energizing.
10. You can make money and you can make residual income. This is important since we all need an income to live the lifestyle we want. In the "Seven Habits" book by Stephen Covey, one of the seven habits is "begin with the end in mind". So the important question, is not what you want to be or do, it's what kind of lifestyle do you want? How you make your money has a huge bearing on how you live your life. Doctors make great incomes but do they have the time to enjoy it? A dentist makes a great income but can he afford to take a vacation? Especially when he or she realizes how much income they are passing up.
Network marketing gives you the leverage you need to create income so you have the time to enjoy the freedom of living the lifestyle you dream about living. Oh and that's a really important side benefit: You are allowed to dream again because now you have a way to achieve those dreams of yours you may have forgotten about.
There are so many network marketing companies out there, if you are undecided which one to join, email me and I'll give you some direction.
Janie
